The Heros Journey In The Hobbit: A Hero's Journey

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Movies are an important part of modern entertainment and is a great way to pass on myths and stories from earlier times. Most movies follow a similar pattern in the plot process. There is a hero, trials, and the hero eventually saves the day and possibly a damsel in distress. This common plot line is mainly called the Hero’s Journey, and is used in myths, books, movies, and even T.V shows. The cycle is important if you are trying to create a plot for a movie about a hero or a group of heroes and how they saved the day. This cycle is even used in some of the most popular movies these days. Movies like Avengers, Batman, Star Wars, and even Harry Potter. The movie that I chose that fits the ancient formula of a hero’s journey is titled The Hobbit…show more content…The Hobbit begins with introducing our hero, Bilbo Baggins, who is a respectable hobbit that lives in the Shire. His ordinary life is a middle-aged hobbit that does not go on adventures, even though he longs to do something exciting like his deceased mother. His call to adventure starts with Gandalf the Gray, a wizard, who was also a friend of his mother. Gandalf shows up to try and convince Bilbo that he is needed for an adventure, though he does not go into detail about what the adventure would entail. Gandalf leaves after Bilbo refuses the call to adventure and wishes him a good day. He is later surprised by a company of dwarves that show up during dinner time, this moment is in which I believe to be a second call to adventure for Bilbo. They explain to Bilbo about their journey and how it is meant to help take back their mountain from Smaug the dragon. This conversation really begins to ignite Bilbo’s desire to leave the Shire and travel with them, though he again refuses the call to adventure that night. The morning after dinner he suddenly decides to accept the call and races out his door to meet up with the dwarves. He then spends the rest of the movie working through the rest of the hero’s…show more content…Bilbo’s first test begins with the company losing their ponies due to trolls and him attempting to rescue them. The dwarves end up captured and he uses his quick thinking to delay the trolls until the sun rises. This is his first trail with the company which begins their bond for the rest of the movie, though his mentor Gandalf does not show up till the very end to help. As they continue their journey, Bilbo faces Gollum, another enemy, and defeats him in a battle that leaves Bilbo with a magic ring. The magic ring is a helpful object in this movie, as it allows him to disappear from danger and having possession of it allows Bilbo to help save the company multiple times. One of those times is when the company tries to fight off giant spiders and all but Bilbo end up captured by mean-spirited Mirkwood elves. Bilbo spends weeks using the ring to sneak around the dungeon and later figures out an escape plan for them. Though the hobbit does come with a lot of trails and enemies, it also provides the group tons of allies. They found allies in Beorn a bear shape-shifter that feeds them and allows them to stay at his home for a while, the Rivendell elves who throw them a feast, and the giant eagles who save them from being killed. The use of the hero’s journey cycle and great writing allowed J. R. R. Tolkien to make this series interesting even sixty years in future. This is one of

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien is a novel in which a hobbit goes on the greatest adventure of his life. The first phase of the monomyth, the departure, is reflected in the book when Bilbo Baggins (the hobbit in the story) departs on a quest to rid a mountain of a dragon called Smaug. After the dragon is slayed, the return phase of the monomyth is in play as Bilbo journeys home. Along the way, Baggins was both helped and hindered by different characters embodying the archetypes of the monomyth. Thus

novel, The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins goes through a classic representation of the Hero’s Journey. Throughout the story, Bilbo transitions from being a complacent, sheltered hobbit, to a more adventurous hobbit. The Hobbit has all three parts of the hero’s journey; The Departure, Initiation and The Return, all of which is interpreted throughout the quest.
During The Departure period in The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins lives a respected life with no adventures or anything unexpected like a hobbit should. Gandalf

Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist, undergoes the five stages of the hero’s journey: departure, initiation, the road of trials, the innermost cave, and return and reintegration into society. When the adventure is all done, Bilbo takes away an important lesson about who he is from his travels. Thus The Hobbit, the novel by JRR Tolkien is an example of a heroic quest for identity, because the protagonist, Bilbo goes through each aspect of the hero’s journey and learns about who

the films produced today and these heroes generally follow both Campbell’s “Hero’s journey” and “Heroic Archetypes”. Some of Campbell’s tenets for a hero are that he must be called to a quest, he will face trials and tribulations, face temptation, complete a task, and eventually return home. The hero must also fit an archetype and its quest, fear, dragon, task, and virtue. Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is in fact one of the aforementioned heroes. Bilbo Baggins has always wanted

The Hobbit in the movie ‘The Hobbit’ by J.R.R Tolkien, the protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, displaying a hero’s journey starting as a weak and cowardly person with no knowledge of the world outside his comfort zone. As a trilogy the movie only follows part of the hero’s journey to the ORDEAL.
The hero’s journey twelve structure starts off with the protagonist in his ordinary world to the comfort of his own home. Receives the call to an adventure where he would decide whether to join or to reject the

Every hero changes and grows in a story. Bilbo is no exception. In the very beginning of “The Hobbit”, Bilbo is just like any other hobbit, quiet and comfortable in his little hobbit hole. He prefers to stay out of trouble and never leave the comfort of his home. This is the beginning of his ‘Hero’s Journey’. The Hero’s Journey is an idea that every hero in every story follows. This shows the change and growth in a hero. The steps of the Hero’s Journey includes the call to adventure, the journey through

Abstract—The “hero” from Harry Potter: The Philosopher’s Stone, is a young book taken from his dull and tedious life and swept off to the fantastical boarding school of Hogwarts. In the Black Cauldron Taran the pig keeper shares a similar situation, he is taken from his life of drudgery and whisked off on an epic journey. Each of these characters goes through similar developments on their quests, and each draws from seemingly mundane beginnings. This type of heroism seems coherent across the two

Every hero goes through certain stages in their valorous journey. Some stages are more important in a hero’s journey compared to others. In The Hobbit, the most important stage of the hero’s journey is stage 6, tests/challenges. This is because the hero, Bilbo (a friendly hobbit), learns how to make decisions based on his mistakes and work individually, he learns new tactics and strategies and he earns possessions and answers after accomplishing them. Bilbo learns to make his own decisions when he

Baggins of Bag End had lived a peaceful, respectful life as a hobbit. However, one day his quiet life was shattered by the arrival of a wizard named Gandalf and thirteen militant dwarves, who persuaded him to set out on an adventure. He embarks with the dwarves and wizard on a great quest to reclaim their treasure under the mountain from the marauding dragon, Smaug, with Bilbo acting as their “burglar”. During his unexpected journey, Bilbo not only found his courage, but also golden right that made

“The hero’s story has the “thousand faces” made famous by Campbell’s work, but it is still ‘‘a story’’, that is, a narrative process by which things happen to create, to shape, and to demonstrate the hero in action.”(Pharr, 54). Heroes come from nowhere, but are not luck of the draw. They are “a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability”(Merriam-Webster).
Campbell’s theory of how a hero is constructed is exemplified by Rowling and Tolkien’s